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In practice. The correction of an error committed in any process, pleading, or proceeding at law, or in equity, and which is done either of course, or by the consent of parties,

To lose the protection afforded by the law of the land.

The English indefinite article. In statutes and other legal documents, it is equivalent to “one” or “any;” is seldom used to denote plurality. Kaufman v. Superior Court, 115 Cal. 152, 46 Pac.

In English law. A prestation or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mar. pt. 2, c. 0.

In old English law. Engiishery; the fact of being an Englishman. Angliae jura in omni casu libertatis dant favorem. The laws of England in every case of liberty are favorable, (favor liberty

The intention of donating or dedicating

The intention of returning. A man retains his domicile if he leaves it animo rcvertrndi. In re Miller’s Estate, 3 Rawle (Pa.) 312. 24 Am. Dec. 345 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 225;

An annual day, in old ecclesiastical law, set apart in memory of a deceased person. Also called “year day” or “mind day.” Spelman.

Lat. In civil and old English law. A year; the period of three hundred and sixty-live days. Dig. 40, 7, 4, 5; Calvin.; Bract, fol. 3596.

In pleading. Any pleading setting up matters of fact by way of defense. In chancery pleading, the term denotes a defense in writing, made by a defendant to the allegations contained in

A copy or counterpart of a deed.

The summit of the law; a legal subtlety; a nice or cunning point of law; close technicality; a rule of law carried to an extreme point, either of severity or refinement.

In the civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See APOSTLES.

In practice. A coming into court as party to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant The formal proceeding by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court. Flint

When a constitution or court declares that the common law is In force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it is meant that it must be applicable to

To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to

L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham.

Spring water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27,

The plowing of land by the tenant, or vassal, in the service of his lord. Whishaw.

An award is the judgment of a good man, according to justice. 3 Bulst. 04.